Chapter 67 The Marquis is furious
Upon hearing this, Mu Xingci glanced at Song Sheng, then looked at the jade bracelet: "Miss Song, could you please let me take a look at this jade bracelet?"
Seeing that he looked strange, Song Yaqing hurriedly said, "If you like it, you can take it." As she spoke, she took off the emerald jade bracelet from her wrist.
Mu Xingci did not explain. He took the bracelet and looked at it carefully. Finally, he confirmed that this jade bracelet was the one he had given away. But the question was, how did this bracelet end up in Song Yaqing's hands?
"Song Sheng, where did you get this jade bracelet?" Mu Xingci looked at the prefect with a slightly gloomy face.
Upon hearing this, Song Sheng quickly stood up and said, "My Lord, this jade bracelet was given to me by Boss Zhang a few days ago."
"Which Boss Zhang?"
"It's Zhang Zheyuan. He's here too. You can ask him."
"Zhang Zheyuan, come out." Mu Xingci's voice was slightly cold.
As he called out, a man hurriedly stepped forward and knelt on the ground: "My Lord, this jade bracelet was taken from a pawnshop. The accountant received it a few days ago and sent it to my home.
I didn't know this was the Marquis's thing. If I had known, I would never have dared to accept it."
"Pawnshop?" Mu Xingci whispered, "Do you really like money that much?"
After a moment of silence, he looked up at everyone and said, "The banquet continues." He returned to his seat as if nothing had happened, but the coldness around him betrayed his mood at the moment.
Yun Wansheng in the other courtyard had no idea that what she had done had been exposed. At this moment, she was urinating in the toilet across the courtyard. When she was about to pull up her pants, she suddenly heard the voice of her maid Xiaoqing coming from outside.
"Who says she isn't? Miss Yun is famous for being favored, but when it comes to big things, she doesn't seem that important." There was a hint of contempt in his tone.
"A man like the Marquis is not something an ordinary woman can reach. If he really wanted to, he wouldn't have concealed the fact that today is his birthday party." Wang Ma's voice came in shortly afterwards.
What they said made Yun Wansheng's face pale, and her clenched fists trembled slightly. It turned out that today was the birthday of that dog marquis. The funny thing was that she, a concubine, didn't even have this simple right to know.
She persuaded herself not to take it too seriously, thinking that they were just putting on an act and she didn't need to take it seriously. But the more she persuaded herself, the more her heart ached.
She didn't have to know his birthday. In her opinion, when the man was born had nothing to do with her.
What made her angry was that the man kept saying that he liked her, but in his heart he looked down on her. His behavior showed that she was really just a bird in a cage, who only needed to be kept for fun. As for the rest of her, she was nothing.
He walked out of the toilet with a cold face, and without paying any attention to the two servants who were frightened by him, he went straight back to the main courtyard.
"Oh, Aunt Wang, what if she hears it? The Marquis told us not to tell her about today's banquet. If Miss Yun gets angry with the Marquis, we will be punished." Xiaoqing said with a worried and fearful look on her face.
"Don't worry, I'll go to Miss Yun and plead with her to try not to make trouble with the Marquis. I hope she can agree." After saying this worriedly, Aunt Wang didn't even go to the toilet and hurried to the master's room.
When they walked into the inner room, they saw Yun Wansheng leaning against the head of the bed in a daze, obviously having heard what they said.
"Miss Yun." He called out softly, embarrassedly.
Yun Wansheng regained his composure and looked at her: "What's the matter?"
"Uh! Miss Yun, we didn't know you were in the restroom just now, so you heard something unhappy. I hope you can be more open-minded and not take it too seriously."
"I'm fine, you don't have to worry about me." Yun Wansheng smiled faintly.
"Uh... this... and Miss Yun, can you pretend that you don't know about this? If the Marquis knew that we spoke too much, the punishment we receive would be light." Aunt Wang said with a dry laugh.
"Don't worry. Even if you don't come to me, I won't tell you. His birthday is none of my business." Yun Wansheng smiled sarcastically.
"Miss Yun, please don't get angry with the Marquis about this. If you do, he'll start to suspect what we told you."
"Auntie Wang, you're overthinking it. How can I argue with him? I can't bring myself to humiliate myself."
Wang Ma was relieved when she heard her say this: "Ms. Yun is really open-minded. We should turn a blind eye to things in life. If we take it too seriously, we will only suffer in the end."
"I know! If you're fine, just go down!" Yun Wansheng urged people to go.
After she left, Yun Wansheng laughed a few times: "He is not related to me, why should I make trouble with him? After I leave, I will have no relationship with him anymore."
After noon, Yun Wansheng went to bed and read for a while. When she felt sleepy, she fell asleep again. She looked no different from usual.
She was falling asleep when she suddenly felt someone standing in front of the bed. She couldn't help but open her sleepy eyes. After seeing who it was, she closed her eyes and continued to sleep.
Mu Xingci's eyes were filled with coldness. How could this woman treat his things as hers and still sleep soundly with a clear conscience?
"Yun Wansheng, get up! I have something to ask you." The voice was unusually cold.
Yun Wansheng heard something wrong in the man's voice and immediately opened her eyes: "What's wrong?" she asked in a cold tone and sat up.
"Where is the jade bracelet I gave you?" Mu Xingci stared at his mistress with cold eyes, who looked as if nothing had happened. This made him even angrier.
Upon hearing this, Yun Wansheng paused her hair-tightening hand and said, "It's lost." She didn't even glance at him.
"How did you lose it?"
Yun Wansheng heard the man's unfriendly tone and knew that he must know something, otherwise he would not ask her about the bracelet out of thin air.
The truth was of course untold: "Actually, it wasn't lost. It was snatched away by a beggar. I didn't tell you because I was afraid you'd be angry."
"Really? But I heard that it was a woman who pawned it at a pawnshop." Mu Xingci's eyes became colder and colder. She was still lying now.
"Since you already know everything, why are you still asking me? What's wrong with me being the boss? It's just a broken bracelet! Is it necessary for you to question me like this?" Yun Wansheng's tone also turned cold.
"A broken bracelet? You call this emerald jade bracelet worth thirteen thousand taels a broken bracelet?" Mu Xingci held the jade bracelet in front of her and said angrily.
The woman's indifferent reaction, showing no guilt or fear of being exposed, made him feel that all his kindness had gone to waste.
Yun Wansheng was slightly stunned when she heard this. She didn't expect that this jade bracelet was so valuable. The pawnshop owner actually cheated her. He was so cruel.
Inwardly, she cursed the unscrupulous boss, but laughed nonchalantly: "My Lord, since you gave me this bracelet, I have the right to dispose of it. I have no money to spend, so I have to sell it."
"You have no money to spend, so you just pawn the things I gave you? What do you think of my feelings for you?" Mu Xingci said angrily as he looked at the woman who was smiling calmly.
"I cannot accept the Marquis' kindness. Since you feel sorry for the things you gave away, you should not give me any in the future." Yun Wansheng said coldly.
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